Probably "I know some people see life as a game, but I tend to take my life more seriously than that."
Then I would send them a tell stressing the importance of starting in-character, with references to the appropriate HELP files.

Probably "I know some people see life as a game, but I tend to take my life more seriously than that."
Then I would send them a tell stressing the importance of starting in-character, with references to the appropriate HELP files.

I would like there were HELP files IRL aswell. It would help me much.

Especially a HELP WHATNOW and HELP WTFAMIDOINGWITHMYLIFE.

Commission List: Aesi, Kenway, Shimi, Kythra, Trey, Sholen .... 5/5 CLOSEDI will not draw them in the order that they are requested... rather in the order that I get inspiration/artist block.

My family and friends are quite familiar with the game. When my husband (that dirty traitor) let it slip that I'd started playing again, everyone gave me concerned looks and said things like ' oh no'. I fully expect to come home from work some afternoon to find them all standing in my living room with hand written letters.

My family and friends are quite familiar with the game. When my husband (that dirty traitor) let it slip that I'd started playing again, everyone gave me concerned looks and said things like ' oh no'. I fully expect to come home from work some afternoon to find them all standing in my living room with hand written letters.

-tense Spanish violin music plays as parents and husband confront Jozlyn in the living room-

Paternal Progenitor: That is no way to talk to your significant other, young lady!

@Jozlyn: CON-FRIGGING-DAMMIT, IT'S ALWAYS 'WHY ARE YOU PLAYING THIS GRAPHICS-LESS GAME' OR 'YOUR TALK ABOUT TRIGGERS AND ALIASES AND MACROS SCARES THE BAJABBERS OUT OF ME' OR 'ARE YOU CHEATING ON ME WITH THAT DAMN ELDRITCH ABOMINATION'. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU GUYS WANT FROM ME?!

Paternal Progenitor: We want you to be a responsible young professional like normal people...

Maternal Progenitor: ...who fits in with society like normal people...

Male Marital Partner: ...and play Call of Duty or World of Warcraft, like normal people.

-camera quick-zooms in on each character's angry face in repeated sequence, cycling from Jozlyn, to her mother, to her father, to her husband, and back to Jozlyn, pausing for a few seconds before the preview for the next episode shows-

Narrator: Faced with pressure from her parents and her husband, what will @Jozlyn do? Stay tuned for the next episode of the Internet's hottest and newest soap drama, "Jozlyna Mercedes - Amor, Pasión, y Vivisección en Ashtan"!

EDIT: Fixed title. A soap drama title is just incomplete without the titular protagonist's name.

My conversations when explaining Achaea to a friend generally goes like this:

Me: It's a texted based game.Friend: A what?Me: A game without pictures.Friend: How do you play that?Me: By typing things out, and making my own 'controller' so to speak.Friend: What the hell is wrong with you? Why would you play a game like that?Me: Because I like to read and have no more books to read!Friend: Oh, that's right. You read to much.Me: Shut up.